and he was sniffling and scolding about "that pesky parrot." Mr.
Morris made him come back into the house, and had a talk with
him. He found out that he was a poor, ignorant lad, half starved by
a drunken father. He and his brother stole clothes, and sent them to
his sister in Boston, who sold them and returned part of the money.

Mr. Morris asked him if he would not like to get his living in an
honest way, and he said he had tried to, but no one would employ
him. Mr. Morris told him to go home and take leave of his father
and get his brother and bring him to Washington street the next
day. He told him plainly that if he did not he would send a
policeman after him.

The boy begged Mr. Morris not to do that, and early the next
morning he appeared with his brother. Mrs. Morris gave them a
good breakfast and fitted them out with clothes, and they were sent
off in the train to one of her brothers, who was a kind farmer in the
country, and who had been telegraphed to that these boys were
coming, and wished to be provided with situations where they
would have a chance to make honest men of themselves.

CHAPTER X BILLY'S TRAINING CONTINUED

WHEN Billy was five months old, he had his first walk in the
street. Miss Laura knew that he had been well trained, so she did
not hesitate to take him into the town. She was not the kind of a
young lady to go into the street with a dog that would not behave
himself, and she was never willing to attract attention to herself by
calling out orders to any of her pets.